Syed Hammad Raza

Who was Syed Hammad Raza?

Syed Hammad Raza Shaheed, Additional Registrar, Supreme Court of Pakistan, was a civil servant belonging to the elite District Management Group of Central Superior Services of Pakistan. He was a close confidant of the suspended Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and served as his virtual staff officer until his gruesome murder on May 14, 2007. While Pakistani police is still investigating his murder, it is widely believed that he was target killed because he had refused to cooperate with authorities for providing false evidence which would incriminate Justice Chaudhry in the wake of the ongoing judicial crisis in Pakistan.